Posted on 02/09/2010 3:38:13 AM PST by doodad
Asian-American activists offended that MARTA re-named the train line into the heart of Atlanta's Asian community the "yellow line" will take their objections to the transit agency's chief on Friday.
“Yellow,” as a term for skin color, carries a generally negative, racist connotation among Asians.
MARTA officials were warned by an employee before the name change last October that Atlanta’s burgeoning Asian community would find the term for the line to Doraville offensive.
“Historically, it has had a derogatory intent,” said John Park, an attorney with the nonprofit Center for Pan Asian Community Services in Doraville, just down the hill from the Marta station. “It physically paints a very unattractive picture. I don’t consider myself ‘yellow.’”
Park and other Asian activists plan to meet Friday with MARTA CEO Beverly Scott. They hope MARTA will change the line’s name from yellow to gold.
Scott said Monday that she will go into the meeting with an open mind. "There are very few things in this life that are absolute," she said.
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That was back in the stone age when cap pistols looked like real guns. It's funny, now that I think of it, none of us ever got shot by a cop either? Gee, how'd they know they weren't real guns and we weren't stick-up 'men'????
Not a country in the cty anymore :-(
Does it stop in Chambodia?
Nice find! LOL!
There are Asian-American activists? Who knew...
And the one poster who said it should be called the “Chambodia” line is correct. That’s what everyone in north Atlanta calls that area.
>>Does it stop in Chambodia?
The Yellow Line? Yes, the Chamblee station is just to the south of the Doraville station that is the end of the line.
Thinking about it, it is almost a certainty that politically correct Leftist blacks were a part of this decision, given what I know about MARTA management.
At least they got rid of their symbolic welfare queen chairman.
Remember Treasure Island? It made Walmart look like a drug store, LOL!
Who remembers the gas storage tanks exploding and burning for days? It was quite a sight at night.
” I don’t even want to think what a German/Korean combination could do with cabbage, it’s too horrible to contemplate.”
Sauerkraut already does bad things to my insides. If it got together with Kimchee it could take over the world.
But it would make a good Godzilla Movie monster.
Yes, if you read the one line in the article management was warned by one MARTA employee. Probably the diversity manager who then promptly called her Asian anger contact.
I remember Treasure Island, and then the conversion into one of the original Home Depot stores. That was “my” Home Depot, and the new location of that store at Tillie Mill still is one of my two main HD’s.
I don’t remember the tank farm fire, that must have been before I moved to Dunwoody.
The Y word? Is this the new form of English? We find the entire language so insulting that we can’t actually speak it anymore?
Yes, but don’t you think the CEO signed off on this? She’s a PC black woman.
This got seen by much more than a diversity manager. MARTA management has been clueless for a long time.
I remember a time when the only folks Atalanta had a problem with were Yankees.
Why not make it gold?
The Red Line to the Native American community was already taken.
I’d call it the Round Eye Express!
If they do persist in that particular description for the Doraville MARTA train line, will they now rename the Roswell Road bus “The African Queen”? (Just kidding!)
The only reason I’ve ever found myself in Doraville for any length of time is that the Ham Radio Outlet store is in a little strip of shops on Buford Highway a few miles north of 285. That’s the only way I know of the Baden Baden Hof...there’s this huge sign for it along Buford, in Korean and English.
Other than HRO, there’s no reason or desire for me to ever go to Doraville, trust me on this. :) My wife grew up in Gwinnett County (Grayson, near GA 86) and has family outside Roswell, and that’s the extent of our attachment to the ATL right now.
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